The red imported fire ant has infested a property in Montecito. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images) A new population of "highly aggressive" red imported fire ants has infested a private property ...

Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived in the American south from southern Latin America. They did ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – They’re not everyone’s favorite creatures on earth. “Pesty and fast and could hurt me," said visitor Blaire Wilson at Lotusland in Montecito. The Santa Barbara County ...

Since the red imported fire ant is an invasive species, they have displaced other fire ant species native to Texas such as “Solenopsis geminata” or tropical fire ants. Oktavianus Mulyadi Pexels As the ...

Southern states familiar with an invasive, stinging ant are facing a new foe: A hybrid bug that combines the fierce red fire ant and the hardy black fire ant. Imported fire ants have spread from their ...

October is Stop the Ant Month in Hawaiʻi and a multi-agency effort encourages residents to collect and submit ants from their properties to help detect and control the spread of invasive little fire ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner's Office is responding to an active infestation of Red Imported Fire Ants, Solenopsis invicta, centralized in the ...

HONOLULU–The Hawai’i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has conducted two surveys for little fire ants (LFA) at Pua Lani Landscape Design, a Waimānalo nursery that came to the forefront during a Joint ...

(CNN) — Red fire ants are forming rafts to travel on flood waters in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, with the extreme weather threatening a countrywide spread of the highly invasive ...

A new population of “highly aggressive” red imported fire ants has infested a private property in Montecito, according to Santa Barbara County officials. The ants are capable of biting and stinging ...

As the fall weather cools things down in North Texas, there’s one thing people need to be weary of: fire ants. The Lone Star State is home to over 200 ant species, but the one that truly packs a punch ...